The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-16
John A Wise, Of Virginia,
the Former Confederate
Soldier.
How a Republican Tells of the
Future and Its
Hopes.
His Tribute to the Republican Party
the Courage Of Its Faith and
Its Works.

- Why my fellow-citizens the time has come,
NTH its wonderful revolution, when the little
and the men of the South are learning that
Abraham Lincoln in his day and generation was
the greatest sage and statesman OF his CEN
fury. Applause.l And will tell you another
thing that is happening every day. North and
South. The man who shed his blood for the
Union or Confederacy may try to stem the Hood
without avail. The little boys OF the North and
South who read the history OF that war-their
blood IS thrilling with the glorious deeds OF
Grant and Logan ana the ooy may may DO tue
not help little pride for Stonewall Jackson
too prolonged applause and cheers. The
time will come, my fellow-ctizens and no
shrek of old time animosty can keep it back,
when the people of the United States will re-
member nothing Of the causes of that strife,
nothing of the differences because the great Is
sues which were involved are fixed forever, ana
the South to-day, let me tell you. could not be
driven out of the Union II you were to try Pro
longed applause say to you that no greater
revolution has ever been witnessed or ever Will
be than in the feeling which prevails there, not
only in the sentiment of union, but in the grow
ing feeling that the Republican party is the
true hope of the people of the South ZAP
plausel $50
answer boldly, because the Republican party,
from the hour of its birth until now. knew what
IL was for, and was not afraid to tell. Because
the Republican principles were such that he
who runs may read, and the wayfaring man,
though fool, can understand. Because the
Republican party, born in n great national
throe announced its principles no matter
how obnoxious they might have been at the
time to those who were opposed TO it; and
when those principles were announced
never stopped until they were car
ried TO their legitimate conclusion. Be-
cause it for twenty-five years has been
the pioneer in thought in every movement that
has eliminated in the great prosperity OF TINS
land to-day; because il is n party now OF which
it can bo said it never was afraid of great idea
because il was new and it never was afraid to
take hold of u new idea because 1t was great
And say that in the South is the future growth
of the Republican party.
WHY? 1t sounds like n paradox to announce it
here, and yet ii is true. The people OF the South
never were n negative or an obstructive people
The Democratic party of this country. unless II
is stopping somebody or denying something, is
nothing ut ALL Applause and laughter.
The people of the South have undergone n
revolt on that YOU can little understand here
/ say to you in all sincerity that the alkali des
ert of slavery that lay in the Southern land ana
know only the hot breath OF sectional passion is
to-day beginning to bloom with the fruit OF in
dustry and labor. tell you, my friends and
fellow-c tizens of Michigan, there is the ground
for your missionary work. You little real
ize that South Carolina, once solely given up
to political distractions and deeming work
deregotary from her gentility, South Caro-
lima to-day is entering the markets OF the
world with cotton products, and battling
for the market OF Shanghai sending out
millions of her cotton cloth each month.
In Alabama n city has sprung up almost with
the suddenness Of magic under the influence OF
the development of her iron and her coal.
George Washington once said, in the darkest
days of the revolution, Give me little band
of my men in the mountains of West Augusta
and there 1 will resist the combined powers of
all our enemies" In these same mountains OF
West Augusta to-day the mountain side has
been tapped, and coal and iron and minerals of
all kinds are poured out to the few men who
have gathered in those mountains OF West
Augusta. The wealth that Old Virginia lost is
coming back to her i'll her newly developed in
dustries.
tell you that new South is to-day dawning.
tell you that a new population is going there
tell you, my fellow citizens, that the people
<Df hou Cd naO off IL
party and found that it was not what il prom
ised and are really to leave it and seek real
plausei DO you ask me why they return 10
the Republican party? | will tell you why.
If the Republican party had been the power
in which they put their trust. they would
have known that it had always been an honest
party in what it protested, and when it came
into power they would have expected, as Ger,
tainly as there are one hundred cents in gold
dollar, that the Republican party would
CARRY OUT ITS PLATFORM,
rood bad or indifferent II the Republican
party, by the aid Of the solid South had won its
victory in 1884, don t you know that when it had
told the Solid South that it would give education
through the means of the Blair bill, that il
would have given it to the Solid South instead
of burying it in committee? Applause.
Don't you know, my fellow-ctizens, that if the
Republican party had won the victory by the
aid of the solid Sou h and had promised the re-
PEAL of the internal revenue laws, that it would
have carr ed out the promise as soon as it was
in power? Yet the Democratic party has
taken that law and never been able to make its
two wings flap together when the question was
up. Applause. Don't you know, my fellow
citizens. that il the Republican party had been
elevated to power upon promise to distribute
the surplus in the Treasury, that in this lapse
of time that surplus would have been dis
tributed instead of having Sam Randall at one
end of the bag and Morrison Mt the other, pull
ing the thing in two and spilling il all? lAp
plause and laughter Don't you know that il
the Republican party, abandoning its past his
tory, had gained power by an appeal to race
prejudice, If it had gone through the South
saying. I'VE are the white men party, that il
never would have been guilty of the dupicty OF
appointing Matthews the first thing that it did
[Applause
given us the shbboleth of Jeffersonan SIM
plicity. There was q secretive, furtive vein in
Thomas jefferson that would have made it
quite correct and very much alike in sound To
speak of Jefersonian duplicity. applause and
laughter.) In the days OF George Washington
from whom, thank God the Republican party
has taken the chart of its principles, for the Re
publican party might to-day 20 into it's next
campaign with no other platform, no other sign
than the picture Of George Washington and his
farewell address, that would be more, ne
less, than the great Republican party
has today Applause. In the days
of Georgi Wnshins ton there was n Ratchet
lIaughter We have heard OF this Jeffersoniar
simplicity, and suppose we never will have
such an example Of il as the message which the
Democratic Executive sent assigning reasons
for the appointment OF Mr.. Matthews. Smart in
deed must have been the Jeffersonan who
would give TO n Republican Senate such req
son And quick and hot was the blow that cam,
back from the Ratchet OF George Washington
when the answer TO those reasons thru s.
under his nose. Applause.
We have other maxims from this party which
we will I y to match IL seems to me that in
tho early stages OF the present administrator
we had the expression "innocuous desuetude,
and the answering echo 70 that sentiment owe
in Indiana "noxious Turpi O. tude
Laughter Now my fellow-citiZens. thes
great disappointments from party that ha
Irouised everything and performed nothing
the memory OF the splendid prosperity whcl
attended the rule OF the Republican party o
this country all are having their effect, all ar
telling their tale. Frightening, deepening
sense Of patriotism is pervading this land from
one 10 enOther. thank God, and love that no maj
can put down is becoming universal in thi
land. -
Thero ore great and salient points OF differ
ence between the Republican and the Demo
cratc party, points which cannot be forgotten
points touching the election laws which thin
best not 10 discuss. l say to you, frankly, nj
though I have f>lght against those Outrage
and abuses. that the temper and spirit OF tn
South todav is mere catholic, more reasonable
moro disposed by proper effort TO realize tina
the Republican PARTY Of this country is its hes
friend than ever before. and for Gods sake lie
no bitterness stop tie tide which is steadily an
aur,lv rising Creit cheers WHY should nc
the lard which gave birth 10 Washington rail-
under THO banner which he handed 10 this grea
pertvY IL will 10 has. You heard tho oga
In the In q elect on. We snatched seven OF IN
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